Difference between revisions of "VTube-STEP v1.77"

Revision 1.77

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The Import/Export interface is now expandable/compressible.

You can display or hide protocol choices in the interface.

New imports and exports were added:

• Example of a new IMPORT: Solid Edge XpresRoute bender files in the TXT format
  
  
• Example of a new EXPORT: SMI bender format

(Note about the XpresRoute import: This file format uses bender LRA data to define the tube shape, therefore the original orientation of the part is lost during export from Solid Edge. Also this file does not contain the tube diameter. However, it does bring in the part name, the linear display unit, the cut length, and the LRA bender data.)

These new fields allow you to dynamically adjust the end lengths during calculation of the bender data LENGTH columns.

These values act like the TubeCalc material end length fields - and allows that data to be imported.

The original End Trim Offset field names were changed by default to "Solid Model Offset" to reflect how these values are used in VTube.

These values adjust the end point location relative to the solid model when the centerline is calculated from the solid model.

Now you can reset the origin in the XYZ data to ZERO in VTube-STEP.

Linear units are now always properly imported into VTube from TubeCalc files.

Previous versions would sometimes improperly interpret the Inch or Millimeter setting in the TubeCalc file.

VTube now always switches to the linear units used in the imported TubeCalc, Solid Edge, or Supravision file.

The projection tolerance now handles a change in linear units properly.

Projection tolerances allow VTube to know how precise it must be to qualify a projection intersection as successful. Some models have less precise surfaces - so the tolerance needs to be increased for a successful calculation of centerline.